Nimitz Class - Rise of the Aircraft Carrier - Big Bigger Biggest
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The Nimitz class supercarriers are a class of ten nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in service with the United States Navy.
Rolling back the clock and winding down the scale we examine their evolution and history, revealing landmark inventions that allowed these advanced warships to grow supersize!
00:00 Introduction
02:39 Taking Off - USS North Carolina
10:01 Landing - HMS Ark Royal
16:47 Stopping - USS Hornet
23:41 Defence - USS Midway
28:38 Guidance - USS Forrestal
38:23 Power - USS Enterprise
44:33 Construction - USS Nimitz
Episode from the “Big Bigger Biggest” documentary series exploring the engineering breakthroughs that have enabled us to develop some of the largest structures in existence.
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@@randystarcher2358 am I supposed to know what that means?
tHIS can be destroyed in a matter of second, no destroyes can protect such big ship.
Your post has the most accurate - though brief - clip on Primary Flight Control I have been able to find on KZhead…Well Done!
Geez, this documentary really shows its age. Now that the Ford is afloat, with its new electromagnetic rail and other advances over the Nimitz, it is now the largest carrier afloat, and also one of the nastiest given that it has F35-C's in its hold.
As a whole, this series doesnt look for "the biggest" (aircraft carrier in this case) per se. Instead, it defines specific innovations that allowed the next generation of [carriers] to grow ever larger. The "Ford" class of carrier owes its massive size to the many creative innovations brought to life over years of R&D as described in this episode. Indeed it owes its size to the Nimitz that came before it and so on.
@@l3uIletpoints You misunderstand. This documentary is many years old. And it is showing its age because the Ford class is an improvement over the Nimitz class in every way. This is not to disparage the Nimitz class and the many things it has done, but had this documentary been done recently it would have certainly gone to the Ford as the newest, biggest, and most powerful carrier with multiple innovations over the Nimitz.
@@ShneekeyTheLostI can see your point along with his ∆
To be expected of course considering the age of the Nimitz class. They’ve been in commission since the early 70s…
You really wrote that before reading it huh? This documentary is probably older than your daddy’s left sack.
5:39 that landing was perfect! For a wooden model plane, that was unbelievable.
coming from a military town, i used to go down to the water and watch the big ships come in for drydock. it was pretty cool seeing the crew lined up on the deck looking to see WHERE they were coming to next! and knowing all hell was fixin' to break loose in our lil ol' town when they got "settled" in. if you think it looks huge in the water, you should see one in drydock!!! there's just as much that you can't see ....... as to what you CAN!!!
One ship. Ark Royal. A bunch of crazy aviators and they changed history.
The Nimitz class CVN has been surpassed in size by the Gerald R. Ford class which is roughly 1000 tons heavier and at the same length of a Nimitz class. It has the electromagnetic aircraft launching system as well. Advanced recovery systems as well as reactor upgrades that generate enough electrical power to run everything currently as well as into the future with upgrades. This CVN will be in service until 2105 or so for the USS Gerald R. Ford itself.
To be fair, this is an old video, and it does have some good information
You do realize that this video was done in the 2000s right?
It’s okay this was show was probably made before you were born. We can let this one slide.
The first ever carrier strike was from HMS Furious in 1918, against a base at Tondern. 7 Sopwith Camels launched from 80 miles each carrying 2x 50lb bombs. Zeppelins L54 and L60, an observation balloon and a hydrogen store were destroyed. All Zepplin were rebased south and did not operate over UK again. All for the cost of 1 pilot lost.
Brits One, Gerries Nil…
Yep, Sub lieutenant Reginald Warneford VC and William leefe Robinson VC had the bravery to take on superior forces (Zeppelins) and win over 100 years ago.
HMS Furious was a battle cruiser that had modified for planes but it's not the first purpose-built aircraft carrier. I see what your saying and agree but I think they just talking mainly about purpose built carrier's.
Yeah I do agree that ark royal was chosen as that was a treaty ship so even at the time she was made she was not as good as Britain could have made
But what about the implacable and then why is the Carolina on the list
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Very well done video! Thanks.
20 years with out refueling is just crazy
The new Virginia class submarines can go 40 years without refueling.
Please substitute the word nuclear for crazy. Also keep in mind that other fuels such as diesel (for operating ground support equipment and electrical generators aboard) must be ‘unrepped’ onto the CV. Oh, and we need to vertrep many other supplies as well. The general rule is related to perishables…once fresh vegetables start to wilt, you can bet there will be an Unrep on the schedule.
Oh, and our AVGAS tanks have seven figure capacities.
All aircraft carriers big or small are just sitting ducks in the oceans against any modern missiles attacks. With hundreds or thousands missiles hit the aircraft carrier at once all that needs will be only couple missiles hit the top deck then the aircraft carrier is useless, finished.
Christ!!! How old is the first Nimitz Class!!!! Great upload, thank you very much for posting. As an Englishman, in honour of Dunning.... who was the first pilot to land an aircraft on board a ship.... we should've named a Royal Navy Carrier after him........ HMS DUNNING. For you Americans, you're now on the Ford Class Carriers which are more technically advanced, more capable, have smaller crews and are..... errmmmm...... more expensive!!!!
Thanks, fascinating documentary.
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In spring 2022 I was bringing a pleasure boat back from Norfolk VA to New England and the G.H.W. Bush (CVN77) was in port alongside the Gerald R Ford (CVN78), the first in the Ford class, as we sailed out. It was a very impressive sight.
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Y'all got a pretty tight presentation. Nice work
It’s interesting that our Naval aviation force is larger than most nations…combined at times. That’s not even including the US Air Force and Marines.
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the largest airforce is the USAF, and the second is the US Navy. I think China is third
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USS FORRESTAL CV-59 82 Mediterranean/Indian Ocean Lost seven souls on that deployment. Average loss of life per six month Carrier deployment was five souls, we lost seven. Semper Fortis Semper Fidelis
Night landing had my heart palpitating
Idk how it happened but my youtube home page, which is littered with current hollywood media and music news is now flooded with these kinds of videos. I love it
13:27 - You need an equal amount of balance on both sides to keep it upright. It's like a weighing scale in which if you keep two oranges that weigh the same, the scale stays balanced.
Could you not find a photo of a Nimitz class carrier? That's the now museum ship Midway in San Diego, about half the tonnage of a Nimitz class.
That intro tho 😮🎉
Wonderful vid! Still can't do Metric measurements!
I almost choked when the weights crashed through of the deck of the ship 😭🤣🤣
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Viewing this on 26/02/2023...great documentary
02-01-2024 now & it’s just as good now as it was then An interesting video for sure. Especially for someone who has never been to sea, & not going ether.
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Fun fact about the jets failing to catch the arresting wire: the hook will actually create sparks on the flight deck during a failed catch. No sparks means the hook wasn’t down, so it was a “touch and go”, where the pilot just tries touching the carrier before practicing with the hook, just to make sure they can get close to the carrier
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Dude… that’s just dumb… I am experiencing 3rd person embarrassment for you
Dodge wing blades and Jeff's as they killed on hot the multi million dollar warplanes Robert Hilda poor watch a movie engineers mirror the layout of the flight deck and miniature to keep track of the Cummings and going to Beach airport it's literally nuts and bolts technology this is a Ouija board there's a miniature version of the flight deck and he's a little plastic pieces that we have here track of aircraft that we actually have it on deck now these nuts ball State represent different things means that it needs an aircraft return of engines turn MMS one I need fuel and helps keep track of everything going out on the flight deck since I've moved at such a fast pace out there they're constantly updating us bored I gotta clean up L4 I got dropped guy down if you want you can put 203 on the elevator really doesn't matter this is always reliable if we have a power outage I can always rely on this being up and running before he puts up in Elmont make sure the Nimitz cannot write more across the any other carrier in the world up to 90 lethal warplanes
It not only seem dangerous to work on carrier deck's runway, it is actually a very dangerous work in progress. Have to direct so many jets for 'perfect' landing and takeoff in such a short time period within crowded limited space is very stressful.
It really isn't anywhere near as stressful as a typical airport tbh, the intake is considerably less &outgoings too Theres more stress about bomb ordinance if anything
Great video , love the animation to explain.
Some of, if not the most amazing creations humans have ever conceived just for some intermittent peace. Thanks to all who bravely step to the front in hopes of securing peace how ever the danger of that task. Facing evil no matter how big or small each of us citizens of this floating ball of rock and dirt we all must do our part.
But no one can stand up to the evil because they have these gigantic aircraft carriers. Didn't you watch the video? The United States starts wars and murders innocent men, women, and children - all around the world - with impunity, on an ongoing basis, but no one can stand up to them. What's this part that people must do? How do we stop the most evil regime on the planet when they are so powerful?
Somebody needs to be at ‘the pointy end’ of the spear, and that’s almost always us ‘Birdfarmers’.
Oh please 🙄
That's why the U.S. went out of its way to go across half the world to wage wars on foreign soil and lie about their reasons right? Oh yeah, no it was a peacekeeping mission right.
All aircraft carriers big or small are just sitting ducks in the oceans against any modern missiles attacks. With hundreds or thousands missiles hit the aircraft carrier at once all that needs will be only couple missiles hit the top deck then the aircraft carrier is useless, finished.
Interesting an funny. Love the lipstick navigation!
Sorry Arc Royal. The USS Langley was commissioned in Mar 20, 1922, and was launching/recovering aircraft 9 days later.
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Please do one of these on cruise ships
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Realy I like this powerful aircraft
"Push it to the Nimitz" (Nimiiiiiiiitz) ~Scarface
Naval aviation from the skipper all the way down to Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Aircraft Handling [ABH]) is a different animal than the rest of the Navy.
As far as I looked whilst rummaging through the foot locker of history, I could not find a USS Eugene Ely. If this is indeed the case, then the USN has done a great disservice to this pioneer.
There is/was a long-standing U. S. Naval tradition of naming carriers after Revolutionary War (and other) battles, up to around CV-23. Eventually naming shifted to include famous military personnel (Nimitz, Eisenhower) and strong supporters of naval power (Forrestal, Vinson) until we now stick with Presidents.
Exception: Langley, they just kept the name of the Coaler (and probably saved a TON of paperwork! LOL
@@edwardweeden8837 Not necessarily. The two newest Ford class are The Enterprise, which is currently under construction and the Doris Miller. Obviously neither are president names. I doubt if any recent presidents will be used to name any ships as they have not served their country in military service and it has become less popular to name ships after people of questionable character.
@@coachwendy5618 as I am sure you know, there are no hard and fast rules to ship naming. This is very true of the custom (frequent, but not q hard and fast) of naming carriers after presidents. The two examples you mention serve as excellent examples of BOTH our points. There were three Enterprises that fought during the revolutionary era (1775-1815) - two were privateers fitted out by colonies in rebellion and one U. S. Navy sloop fitted out in the Adams administration. Actually the one being built now is the eighth Enterprise I believe. The Doris Miller could not be a better example of a name illustrating someone who strongly supported the use of naval power since he was among the first to fight at Pearl Harbor. Even better that he was an enlisted man!
@@edwardweeden8837 they are going to name two Ford-class vessels differently. CVN-80 will be the New Enterprise. 81 will be Doris Miller. I have some issues regarding them choosing Miller for a Carrier name, because Jesse L Brown would be more fitting in this regard.
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Awesome NAVY.
Absolutely the best documentary on carrier aviation. Very accurate.
I like this show because you get what it says on the tin. 9/10 critics rave, "Yup, that's pretty big."
The USS Langley DESERVED to be here!!!!!!!
Interesting vid though in view of the topic it's odd that the RN is so under-represented. eg: - first true carrier with an unobstructed flight deck. HMS Argus - first aircraft carrier with starboard-side control tower island. HMS Hermes - first aircraft carrier to trial angled flight deck operation. HMS Triumph While more recent innovations include improved operation of STOVL aircraft - first achieved by fitting a 'ski jump' to HMS invincible ....though no need for that last point in a vid concerned only with conventional CATOBAR carrier ops😁
Yes the Royal Navy also innovations included land the American Naval fighter Voight Corsair angling it towards the flight deck. Before that the inverted gull wing fighter was near impossible to land due to its great height and big props.
I am a former U.S. Carrier sailor who married a Brit and have lived in the U.K. for 22 years. The tendency for us ‘yanks’ to not give NEARLY enough credit to the RN in the development of naval aviation is a continuing SCAR in historical focus, and will continue until somebody - Brit or American - figures how to regulate the American Ego. On behalf of all U. S. ‘Birdfarmers’ I apologise to you Squire…simply appalling!
I think you’re giving the RN too much credit here. The Japanese and American navies were very prompt proponents of naval aviation. Japan beat out the British with the first true aircraft carrier (Hoshō)
@@timber_wulf5775 perhaps but deck configuration, island positioning, armoured flight deck, catapault systems and initial operational/combat use are all largely RN in origin…and I am half Irish so that is a bit hard to admit!
@@edwardweeden8837 honestly I would say the modern island arrangement would be more of an American design since a lot of british islands were just MASSIVE. Plus the catapult systems can be more attributed to American thinking and work
"Nimitz can sail for 20 years without refueling..." Wow
Nuclear power I guess
Fun fact: The first naval-launched air raid was from Japan's Wakamiya in 1915, and also the first purpose-built aircraft carrier was the Hosho.
First Aircraft carrier was the British Argus in 1918 not the Hosho.
I miss the Enterprise. She was my 2nd ship.
A New Enterprise is on the way, incorporating steel and fittings from the previous 2 Enterprises.
I still can't believe they didn't save her. But saved the lady lex or other ships that didn't come close to the E. Can't wrap my head around it. Sorry she deserved more respect. Thank you for your service, & to all who kept us safe.
20 years wow
2:40 Carni-Jamm06 from Carnivores Cityscape. 6:39 Did the animation repeat?
watching these for the first time, love them. One interesting thing comes to mind having watched this and the episode on submarines......why cant we produce cars that run on nuclear fuel or boil water at room temperature? Could it be profits? whats more important profits or environment
I thought this was an excellent video. One thing though. Why was there no mention of the USS Langley? I believe that was the first US aircraft carrier. Granted, I believe it was converted coal ship that they put a flight deck on.
They made a lot of weird choices when they made this thing 10-15 years ago. Like they went from the USS North Carolina to the HMS Ark Royal and then never mentioned anything in between and passed it off as the logical and practical progression of technology
Yep 1912
@@timber_wulf5775 The video is not talking about US Navy ships only. It mentions ships which were first to make some considerable progress in the area no matter which country. Like USS Langley was first US aircraft carrier of its capabilities or advancement but one with similar capabilities already existed somewhere in world and they mentioned that.
@@om8414 it talks about the ark royal and presents it as this amazing leap in technology… except Lexington, Akagi, Kaga, Hoshou, Eagle, Langley, or even the goddamn Béarn were more impressive leaps in technology for the future of aircraft carriers
Ahahaa. Reminds of me something we are working on. Conceptually.
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Yep without invading Iraq or Afghanistan you would have shut down your computerer early! what a poor boy! better think before writing if possible.
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When you factor winds , bad weather, and precision in the EARLY AIRCRAFT AND CARRIERS, was the ULTIMATE CRAP SHOOT, until engineers FIGURED OUT HOW TO SHAVE OR LOAD THE DICE. I did a small stint in the Navy aboard a rescue salvage ship 30 years ago. Our ship was could sit on the flight deck with room to spare. These are incredible inventions. Mobile cities with speeds of close to 60 miles and hour (presumably) travelling at FLANK BELL. AND the carriers with gas turbine engines and prop planes, are truly respected by me. Even with the CVN'S the work ethic in it's entirety is truly respectable. And flying fighter jets, I think taxes the human body.
Why no mention of the midway and her distinctive angled left outward flight deck. I thought it was inaugurated with her...
27:34 what are these antiship aim9 sidewinders ?
What I can't wrap my head around is isn't the fastest ship in the battle group. I have a friend who was on a carrier when 911 happened. The battle group leader (Admiral?) Turned them around and headed full speed back to the US. My friend tells us the carrier out ran everything.
They are listed as capable of 30 knots, so im sure they can do more, a ship of that size doing 40 mph......thats nuts
Knots are different than mph.
The ‘official’ USN published ship specification will NEVER cite a max speed for a CV. It will simply say ‘in excess of xx knots’…in a CV’s case, 32.
@@edwardweeden8837 yep, so probably about 40 mph...... thats moving considering my 23 foot center console does 45 wide open on flat water...... feels way faster on water
My friend on the carrier said it's capable of going fast enough to cause damage to the hull. He didn't say how fast that was.
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My father was a radar man on the USS Midway
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@@byronharano2391 I’ve gotten pretty DRUNK with Swordsmen on liberty in my days onboard two PACFLT CVs.
@@edwardweeden8837 Nice Shipmate! Me as well...lol.
@@edwardweeden8837 PACFLT always. 7th Fleet
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Holy ghost bless and protect these machines and personnel to safeguard the peace and stability in the world.
Yeah, if you put like a treadmill running the opposite direction of the incoming plane you can stop the plane that way as well I believe. And launch too.
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Wow
I think the angled deck should have been mentioned
It was.
@@coachwendy5618another British idea
Would like to see big, bigger, biggest military classes of submarines, if it hasn't already been done.
Already done
Is the Moskva the biggest of the Russian submarines?
@@bobbybob3865 I just did a search. The biggest is called the belgorod.
wow! This is an old video!
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idk how i ended up on this side of youtube but im interested.
I hope Admr. Nimitz knew what a true hero he was!
Go Navy
0:45 are these weight stats based off of fully loaded ships or off of the dry dock launch?
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The slingshot principal wasn't known for thousands of years it will only realized when Goodyear invented rubber
No, before that we used branches bent into an arc, or a "bow" if you will. Run a string from either end and you have a surprising amount of stored energy. There were some popular weapons based on this principle; perhaps you've heard of them?
@@alaeriia01 i know why a bow is, slingshot is different
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does anybody have the list of bgms used here?
How great work of Santos Dumont on his the first airplane, the 14th Bis, was? Here we can see that, the brothers create an assist sailplaner launcher, not a self propeller aircraft like the Santos Dumont one.
If it really weighs 91000 tons I’m not surprised why it never sinks
As much as I truly appreciate documentaries like this I also truly hate them with a passion! You're basically telling any possible enemy or foreign powers that are not with this technology basically how to acquire or achieve this technology!!!
I would imagine if they don’t yet have this technology they don’t have the resources to procure it. Our enemy’s have far more information on our military tech than this documentary would provide.
Lol, SMH
What's the betting odds on the carrier defense system nullified all down the line until there's a guy using a carbine, followed by THE CAPTAIN with a pistol? Any takers?
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I'm just gonna throw this out there, that shooter chick at the first part of the documentary is smoking hot😂
Next is Gerald R. Ford class which are just a tad bit bigger, much more updated technology, and electro magnetic rail launches.
All the key features to a aircraft’s career like resting gear's, catapult launch, Ski jump, twin island & Jet landing system was develop by the Royal navy. Later US navy acquire it.
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1:28 how could they miss out USS langley?
So this gentleman invented PAPI lights?
How older this build(content) bro!
The whole concept of a CARRIER and the birds that are launched from a high powered slingshot is a incredible invention. But THE 4 TRILLION OR MORE DOLLARS THAT GO INTO building, and maintaining just the carriers and birds and crew would BE MOOT, if OTHER FORMS of propulsion that didn't require fossil fuels were allowed to be MASSED produced. Of course carriers are nuclear but not the thousands of jets and planes and choppers and non nuclear vessels.
I mean rigging a nuclear reactor for escort ships might be feasible but definitely not for planes due to obvious safety reasons.